United Kingdom

Laura Dantonio

Principle Product Designer Manager

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Evangelizing User Experience at TalkTalk by ensuring that business decisions are taken with the customers in mind while designing, prototyping and researching, design solutions.
* Redesigning onboarding and in-live experience for our four million customers.
* Improving design patterns and web components for CMS and Accessibility validation.
* Promoting lean methodology and data-based decisions.

Leading the UX process and activities for the biggest projects of the agency: UNIPOL, EDISON
* Promoting agile methodology, user-centered approach and collaboration.
* Gather requirements from clients, presenting solutions

Redesign home banking system for CHEBANCA!

- Online banking Platfom for CheBanca!
- Redesign of Elle.it (http://www.elle.it) using responsive approach
- Redesign of Philip Morris Intranet using responsive approach
- Redesign of a E-commerce B2B Platform for Safilo using responsive approach

Leading  UX consultant of digital project delivery for Barclaycard and Barclays Bank. 
- Curator of EMC UX weekly newsletter and UX Library, both invaluable tools to share knowledge across the user experience team
- Presenting the team on a variety of topics such as mind reading, and usability testing.
- Pitching ideas to major clients such as Waitrose and Barclaycard with honourable mention
- Facilitating workshops in collaborative environment and presenting deliverables to clients
- Brand ambassador of EMC in the UX community

Developing design patterns and principles for the company website.
Planning how the website would need to change for the Olympics 2012

Planning and running usability lab testings and expert reviews. Writing reports and presenting findings to clients (AVIVA, POST OFFICE, BSKYB)

Developing E-commerce website for Unilever. Defining user experience for Cif.com aimed to promote cleaning products to women in five different countries. Working with team in New York and in London to define personas, scenarios, and wireframes. Presenting deliverables to client in Milan.

Developing IA guideline for Kelloggs Project Smile's Facebook application.

Creating a full functional specification to improve user experience on Iphone mobile applications

Redesigning e-commerce website. Creating concept images for pitches

Development of Facebook application "Shreddies Knitting Nanas"
for Nestle

Curating Information architecture of Zurich HelpPoint Brokers project

AperiTWeat encourages Twitter friends to meet offline in the spirit of the Italian tradition of Aperitivo. This is a free event where participants can enjoy free food in a relaxed networking environment.

AperiTWeat is now established in London, Mumbai and will be launching soon in New York.

* lead designer in concept development for pitches and clients delivery, creation of schematic and wire-frames interaction model, project design/development, and QA
* Project planning, information architecture, wireframing, quality testing & client communication

* Involved throughout the entire development process; from ideation to website launch
* Creating use cases,  personas, scenarios, wireframes, site maps,  and  user experience guidelines
* Usability testing and focus groups in Europe
(http://www.wasabi.com)

* Online corporate branding of financial magazine, helped bring print brands into the web 2.0 arena, advice on strategy to engage readerships online
* Online advertisements and email campaigns
* Using CMS, Blogging platform, PHP, HTML, CSS

* Web interface and visual vocabulary of Navigabile,  project aimed to people affected by motor and communicational disabilities providing access to web content. (http://navigabile.it)

Prototypes and  presentation for home-office furniture design companies: SACEA and ITOKI

Starting as a web interface design, due to an excellent integration with the team moved to concept design in different project, such as development of Design Museum online

Laura Dantonio🇬🇧

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